Colombia's armed forces rescue kidnapped Garcia Marquez relative


  • World
  • Monday, 17 Dec 2018

BOGOTA (Reuters) - A relative of late Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who won the 1982 Nobel Prize for literature, was rescued from kidnappers on Monday by members of the armed forces, President Ivan Duque said.

Garcia Marquez's great niece, Melissa Martinez Garcia, 34, was seized at the end of August by a group of armed men who intercepted her vehicle near the northern city of Santa Marta along the Caribbean coast. They demanded a ransom of $5 million for her release.

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